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September 4, 2012

Morton series focuses on area history

Staff Report Gainesville Daily Register

Gainesville — The Morton Museum of Cooke County and North Central Texas College will collaborate in November for a lecture series at Gainesville’s  Santa Fe Depot.

The sessions are part of NCTC’s fall 2012 lecture series.

Morton Museum education and marketing director Jayleane Smith will facilitate the three evening classes designed to highlight cultural and historical elements from Cooke County’s past.

“The Indigenous Tribes of Cooke County,” — planned for 6 p.m. to 8 p.m., Nov. 6 — will explore area Native American tribes and reveal details about their traditions, how they coped with the influx of Caucasian settlers and what eventually happened to their tribal lands.

“Gainesville Then and Now: Stores, Saloons, Barbed Wire and Churches,” — set for 6 p.m. to 8 p.m., Nov. 13 — will be a look at Cooke County’s history from the gritty settlers who made their lives here to events which shaped Cooke County.

The series wraps up with “Camp Howze: The Role it Played in WWII and Cooke County.” The Camp Howze session — scheduled for 6 p.m. to 8 p.m., Nov. 20 — will include information on the early days of the military base built on a lonely Cooke County prairie. The lecture will also focus on the contributions made by Camp Howze soldiers and what impact the camp and its inhabitants had on Gainesville’s economy.

All the lectures will take place at the Santa Fe Depot at Santa Fe Drive and California Street in Gainesville.

Call 668-4272 or email ldunn@nctc.edu to reserve a place in the lecture series. There is no cost to attend the series but donations to the Morton Museum of Cooke County are always appreciated.

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